Hi Steve,
Actually it is not about searching the binary data. I just wanna have the whole document (together with the "image stuff") to be stored in the index. So when I got a hit of a search on a document that I can extract the document with its images (and the images' meta information). Nice would be some data structure to be stored in the "image"-field of the document (maybe a HashSet?). So I could extract the found documents with all their image information from the index for easy visualization purpose of the search results. Regards, Bernd Steven A Rowe wrote: > Hi Bernd, > > It's still not clear what you want to do. What will a search look like? > > On 06/10/2008 at 8:36 AM, Bernd Mueller wrote: >> I will try to explain what I mean with image stuff. An image in >> xml-documents is usually an url to the location where the image is >> stored. Additionally, such an image tag contains information like >> offset, width and height. I am thinking about storing the >> images (binary data) and meta-information (offset, width, height) in one >> field instead of using these tagging information as values for a field >> in the index. > > You seem to be saying that you want to store the binary image along with > its metadata all in one field - is this correct? Why do you want to do > this? > >> I guess, your last statement "Lucene doesn't index binary data..." >> indicates that this isn't possible... > > While Lucene will not *index* binary data, it can *store* it. > > Steve > >> Erick Erickson wrote: >> > You add as many fields to the document while indexing as you need to >> > correctly contain your "image stuff". >> > >> > If this answer seems cryptic, it's as clear as your problem statement >> > <G>. To give you a meaningful answer, we need a much clearer >> > problem statement. What is "image stuff", what format is it in, and >> > what do you want to do with it? >> > >> > Lucene doesn't index binary data... >> > >> > Best >> > Erick >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Bernd Mueller >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > I have XML-documents containing image information. These images >> should >> > > be indexed with the document by having one additional field with the >> > > image stuff. Could anyone please give me some hints how I can manage >> > > this? >> > > >> > > Regards, >> > > Bernd > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Diplom Informatiker (FH) Bernd Mueller Fraunhofer SCAI Schloß Birlinghoven 53754 Sankt Augustin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
